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I've gotten it to work on Windows 10 by booting into live Linux and renaming the Windows Defender folder in Program Files. No clue if it would work on 11.

• 0cf8612b2e1e 2y ago
  I am surprised that ever worked. I was confident Win10 did verification that system files were in place and matched a hash or some other integrity mechanism.
  • userbinator 2y ago
    You can ask it to with things like SFC but fortunately it's not that locked-down yet... and of course you can always patch those checks out if the OS itself isn't running to interfere with you.
  • vanchor3 2y ago
    They put in a lot of effort to prevent you from deleting the main executable (you the user that is, malware can probably delete it just fine using the usual methods) however one day I discovered you can delete the .dll files from its folder and it no longer runs, and Windows does not do anything to try and fix it.
    • blibble 2y ago
      you can also set the permissions on it so SYSTEM can't execute it